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THE  ^^le^^^'^f 

GROWTH    OF    CHRISTIANITY 

DURING   NINETEEN  CENTURIES 


EXHIBITED   IN 


A  SERIES  OF  CHARTS  AND  NUMERICAL  TABLES 


A.    O.    VAN   LENNEP 


AND 

A.    F.    SCHAUFFLER 


NEW  YORK 
ANSON    D.    F.    RANDOLPH    &    CO. 

900    BROADWAY,    COR.    20th    STREET. 


Copyright,    1884, 
By  Anson   D.    F.   Randolph  &  Company. 


ST.  JOHNLAND  PRINTED    BY 

STEREOTYPE    FOUNDRY,  EDWARD    O.   JENKINS, 

SUFFOLK    CO.,    N.    V.  20    NORTH    WILLIAM    ST.,   N.   Y. 


INTRODUCTION. 


The  design  of  this  pamphlet  is  to  present  in  compact  form  such 
rehgious  data  of  the  human  race  since  the  year  a.  d,  i  as  may  be 
helpful  to  all  interested  in  the  progress  of  Religion.  So  many  wild 
claims  are  made  in  these  days  about  the  decline  of  Evangelical  Re- 
ligion, claims  based  on  the  ignorance  and  upheld  by  the  hopes  of 
Free-thinkers,  Agnostics,  Romanists,  and  other  opponents  of  Prot- 
estant Christianity,  that  a  few  stubborn  facts  seem  to  be  called  for, 
put  into  such  condensed  form  as  shall  command  general  attention. 
The  cry  of  the  Agnostic  Scientist  is  iox  fads.  He  here  will  find  an 
abundant  supply,  from  the  best  sources,  which  he  may  with  profit 
"read,  mark,  and  inwardly  digest." 

Should  pastors  make  use  of  the  accompanying  tables  in  their 
monthly  concerts,  they  may  find  incentives  to  more  earnest  work  on 
the  part  of  the  Church,  drawn  from  the  great  progress  of  Evangelical 
Religion  in  spite  of  the  small  pecuniary  outlay  by  the  Churches. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  last  table  will  account  for  the  bitter  fact  thai 
more  progress  has  not  been  made.  When  Christ's  Church  shall  be 
as  lavish  in  its  outlay  of  men  and  money  as  the  world  is,  the  conver- 
sion of  Nations  will  not  long  be  postponed. 

By  far  the  larger  part  of  the  work  involved  in  the  preparation  of 
this  pamphlet  was  done  by  Mr.  A.  O.  Van  Lennep,  so  well  known 
by  Sunday  School  workers,  as  the  "Oriental  Lecturer."  Since  the 
work  was  put  into  the  publisher's  hands,  Mr.  Van  Lennep  has  gone 
to  his  rest.  The  Sunday  School  teachers  of  Chautauqua,  Framing- 
ham,  and  other  summer  assemblies  have  thus  lost  a  gentle  and  labori- 
ous fellow-worker  and  teacher,  whose  place  it  will  be  hard  to  fill. 

A.  F.  SCHAUFFLER. 

New  Yokk,  November  ig,  iSSj. 


PROGRESS    OF    THE    CHRISTIAN 
RELIGION    IN    THE   WORLD. 


This  will  be  considered  under  five  different  phases. 

FIRST. 

PROGRESS   OF   CHRISTIANITY    IN   THE   WORLD   FROM 
A.    D.    I    TO   A.    D.    1880. 

No  specific  data  exist  on  the  subject  of  numbers,  except  in 
a  general  way,  from  A.  D.  i  to  looo;  but  the  best  authorities 
give  50  millions  as  the  number  of  Christians  in  A.  D.  lOOO, 
and  so  for  the  different  years  as  follows: 

A.  D.         I Beginning  of  Christian  era. 

1000 50  Millions  of  Christians. 

1500 100         " 

1700 155 

1800 200  "  " 

1880 415 

By  what  precedes  we  find  the  following  gains: 

From  A.  D.  Aiierage per  year 

I  to  1000,  or  in  lOOO  yrs.,    50  Millions.  50,000 

1000  "    1500,       "       500     "       50        "  100,000 

1500  "    1700.      "  200     "        55         "  275,000 

1700  "    1800,      "        100     "       45         "  450,000 

1800  "    1880,      "         80     "     215         "  2,688,000 

Or,   An  increase  of  50  Millions  in  1000  years, 

Doubling  in  the  next  500      " 

Doubling  again  after  300      " 

And  more  than  doubling-  durin"-  the  last       80      " 


Progress  of  the   CJiristiaii  Religion. 


N.  B. — It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  Protestant 
Reformation  began  in  1500,  that  the  great  awakening  under 
Wesley  took  place  during  the  last  century,  and  the  inaugu- 
ration of  Foreign  and  Home  Missions  only  at  the  beginning 
of  the  present  century. 

The  authorities  consulted  for  the  above  statistics  are 
Ferussac,  "  Bulletin  Universel,"  for  A.  D.  1500  to  1800;  and 
Turner's  "  History  of  the  Anglo-Saxons,"  for  A.  D.  1000. 
Prof.  Schem,  in  "Statistics  of  the  World"  for  1876,  gives  the 
number  of  Christians  for  1875  as  389  millions;  and  for  1880 
(as  reported  by  Dr.  Dorchester,  in  "  Problem  of  Religious 
Progress,")  as  410,900,000.  Returns,  however,  from  several 
European  and  other  countries,  where  the  census  was  taken 
in  1880  and  only  recently  come  to  hand,  increase  these 
figures  to  about  415  millions.  See  "The  Statesman's  Year 
Book"  for  1882  and  1883. 


SECOND. 

GROWTH  OF  THE  POPULATION  OF  THE  WORLD  UNDER 
CHRISTIAN  GOVERNMENTS  ;  VIZ.,  ROMAN  CATHOLIC, 
GREEK  CHURCH,  AND  PROTESTANT  GOVERNMENTS. 

This  table  begins  with  the  Reformation: 


/      /-       i  Roman  Catholics    Greek  Church    Protestants 
ments  of       \  I  ; 


A.  T).   1500 

80  Millions 

20  Millions 

"       1700 

90 

33 

32  Millions 

"      1830 

134 

57 

193        " 

"       1880 

192 

no 

445 

Showing  747  millions  of  the  human  race  under  Christian 
governments  in  iSSo. 


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Progress  of  the   Christian  Religion.  7 

According  to  recent  returns,  England  alone  has  now 
over  303  millions  under  her  sway. 

N.  B. — The  authorities  for  the  above  table  are,  for  1500 
and  1700,  Turner's  "  History  of  Anglo-Saxons,"  and  Sea- 
man's "  Progress  of  Nations,"  and  Adrian  Balbi,  "  Geo- 
graphie  Universelle";  while  the  figures  for  18S0  have  been 
compiled  from  "Statesman's  Year  Book,"  in  1880,  1881, 
1882,  1883. 


THIRD. 

THE   STATE    OF    THE    RELIGIOUS   WORLD    IN    1880. 

According  to  Behm  and  Wagner,  the  population  of  the 
world  in  1880  was  as  follows: 

Europe 327,500,000 

Asia 795,591,000 

Africa 205,823,200 

Australia 4,232,000 

America     100,415,400 

Polar  Regions 82,500 

1,433,644,100 
Divided  as  follows: 
Christians,  Protestants    .  .  .    135  Millions 
Roman  Catholics   195       " 
Eastern  Church  .     85       "        ....  415  Millions 

Mohammedans 175        " 

Jews 8 

Pagans  (Shintos,  Buddhists,   Brahminists,  Fe- 
tish, etc.) 835 

1,433 

See  "  Modern  Missions:  their  Trials  and  Triumphs  " 
(Young),  London,  and  "Die  Bevolkerung  der  Erde," 
Behm  and  Wagner. 


Progress  of  the   Christian  Religion, 


Rev.  H.  H.  Jessup,  D.D.,  for  many  years  a  missionary  in 
Syria,  is  our  authority  for  putting  the  Mohammedans  as 
high  as  175  milHons.  He  is  also  our  authority  for  the 
number  of  Mohammedans  under  Christian  governments 
as  follows: 

Under  Great  Britain 41,000,000 

"       Russia 6,000,000 

"       France 2,000,000 

"       Netherlands 21,000,000 


70,000,000 
N.   B. — "  The   Mohammedan    Missionary   Problem,"   by 
Dr.   Jessup,   gives   the   number   under   the    Netherlands   as 
one    inillion.     He    has    informed    us    that    it    should    be    21 
millions  instead. 

These  data  show  the  following  relative  gains  since  the 
Reformation: 


Under  R.  C. 
Gov. 


Under  Greek 
Ch.    Gov. 


AYR. PER  YR.     GAINS   AYR. PER  YR. 


Under  Prot. 
Gov. 


GAINS 


AYR.PERYR. 


First  200yrs. 
Nexti30   " 
Last  50    " 


10  M. 

44  " 
58" 


50,000 

340,000 

1,160,000 


13M. 

27" 
50" 


65,000 

209,000 

1 ,000,000 


32M 
161  " 

252" 


160,000 
1,240,000 
5,040,000 


FOURTH. 

RELIGIOUS  POPULATION  OF  EUROPE  IN  A.  D.  1 5OO  (THE 
BEGINNING  OF  THE  PROTESTANT  REFORMATION)  AND 
IN   THE   YEAR    1880. 

///  A.  D.  1300. 

Roman  Catholics 80,000,000 

Adherents   of  Greek   Church,    Mohammedans, 

and  Jews 20,000,000 

Protestants,  a  handful. 

Population  of  Europe  in  1500 100,000,000 


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According  to  Seaman's  "Progress  of  Nations": 

In  1880. 

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Mohammedans 5.309.9^9 

Jews. 4,515.425 

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N.  B. — These  last  figures  are  compiled  from  the  latest 
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PARED WITH   ITS   POPULATION,  FROM   180O  TO  1880. 

These  statistics  show  the  increase  of  the  population  of 
the  United  States  and  of  the  Protestants  and  Roman  Catho- 
lics at  four  different  times;  viz.,  1800,  1850,  1870,  and  1880 
(the  only  dates  obtainable).  The  data  of  the  Roman  Catho- 
lics are  taken  from  their  own  authorities;  and  the  Evangelical 
data  are  compiled  from  the  reports  of  the  divers  religious 
bodies.  (See,  "  Problem  of  Religious  Progress,"  by  Dor- 
chester.) To  the  number  of  communicants  of  the  latter  2\ 
have  been  added  to  represent  the  probable  number  of  persons, 
including  children,  who  are  members  of  the  congregations 
though  not  communicants.  They  have  been  put  down  in  a 
separate  column  under  the  term  o^  Adherents.  To  the  so- 
called  Liberal  denominations  we  have  also  added  2^  members 
to  their  official  returns,  but  have  not  kept  them  separate. 


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After  deducting  the  Catholics  and  Evangelicals  from 
the  total  population,  the  remainder  have  been  put  down  as 
non-classified,  which  of  course  includes  Indians,  Mormons, 
and  Chinese. 

In  compiling  the  annexed  table  of  statistics,  we  have 
availed  ourselves  of  the  very  elaborate  researches  of  Dr. 
Dorchester,  in  "  Problem  of  Religious  Progress."  See 
chapter  on  "  Religious  Progress  and  Status  in  the  United 
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1 1 


From  these  statistics  it  appears  that  the  increase  of 
population  of  the  United  States,  as  compared  with  the 
Communicants  of  Evangelical  Churches,  was  as  follows: 


From    1850  to   1870   (20  years) 
1870    "    1880   (10       "     ) 


Pop. 


66  per  cent. 


Comts. 


89  per  cent. 
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In  another  form: 

Communicants  in  1800 i   in  14I 

"    1850 "   "      6i 

"    1870 •'  •'      51 

"    1880 "  "      5 

N.  B. — In  accounting  for  the  large  percentage  of  "  un- 
classified "  in  Chart  No.  V,  we  presume  that  the  Church 
statistics  gathered  in  the  earlier  years  of  this  century  were 
defective,  leaving  many  to  be  numbered  as  "unclassified" 
who  really  belonged  to  the  Evangelical  ranks. 


(12) 


OTHER  FACTS  WORTH  CONSIDERING. 


AMOUNTS   RAISED    IN   THE    UNITED    STATES    FOR    FOREIGN 
MISSIONS    FROM    181O   TO    1880. 


From  1810  to  1819 
1820  "  1829 

"    1830  " 

"  1840  " 

"  1850  " 

"  i860  " 

1870  " 


1839 

1849 

1859 

1869 


10 

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10 

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II 

$206,210 

745.718 
2,885,839 

5,078,922 

8,427,284 

13,074,129 

24,861,482 


AMOUNTS    RAISED    IN   THE    UNITED    STATES    FOR    HOME 
MISSIONS    FROM    181O    TO    1880. 


From  1810  to 

1819 

10  years 

no  record. 

"   1820  " 

1829 

10  " 

$233,826. 

1830  " 

1839 

10  " 

2,342,712. 

"   1840  " 

1849 

10  " 

3,062,354. 

1850  " 

1859 

10  " 

8,080,109. 

"  *i86o  " 

1869 

10   " 

21,015,719. 

"   1870  " 

1880 

II 

31,272,154. 

These  statistics  are  taken  from  Dorchester,  "  Problem 
of  Rehgious  Progress."     See  p.  358. 

The  preceding  tables  give  the  following  results  as  the 
average  contributions  per  year  to  the  two  causes  for  the 
last  80  years: 


1 8 19  aver,  per  year 

For.  Mis. 

Home  Mis. 

From  1 8 10  to 

$20,621 

"   1820  " 

1829 

74-571 

$23,382. 

"   1830  " 

1839    " 

288,583 

234,271. 

1840  " 

1849    " 

507,892 

306,235. 

1850  " 

1859    " 

842,728 

808,010. 

"   i860  " 

1869 

1,307,412 

2.105,571. 

**   1870  " 

1880 

2,260,136 

2,842,923. 

*  Contributions  for  the  Christian  Commission  through  "The  Y.  M.  C.  A.' 
are  inchided  in  the  returns  for  i860  to  iS6g. 


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('3) 

Thus  the  cause  of  Foreign  Missions  is  first  started, 
stimulating  the  Home  Mission  Work,  which  in  its  turn 
receives  greater  support  from  the  Christian  public. 

Do  not  these  steadily  increasing  figures  give  us  a  reason 
for  the  increasing  success  of  both  Foreign  and  Domestic 
Missions  ? 


SOME  OTHER  EACTS  OE  SAD  IMPORT. 


The  following  amounts  are  spent  annually 
lowing  objects: 

Contributions  for  For.  Mis.  in  U.  S.  in  1880  . 

For  Home  Missions  "       "       "     " 

For  Church  expenses   in  N.  Y.  City  " 

For  support  of  police     " 

For  public  amusements  " 

Cost  of  police,  courts,  and  charities  chargeab 

to  liquor  traffic,  in  N.  Y.  City  in  1880  . 
Taxes  on  tobacco  in  U.  S.  " 

Spent  in  drinks  in  N.  Y.  City  "     " 

(Or,  $49.70  for  every  soul.) 
Taxes  on  liquor  in  U.  S.  in  1880 


for  the  fol- 

,  $2,260,136 
.  2,842.923 
.  3,000.000 
.  4.000,000 
.     7.000.000 

.  9,000,000 
.  38.870,140 
.  60.000,000 

•  73.015-312 


WORK'S    TO   BE  CONSULTED. 


The  works  to  which  we  will  refer  the  reader  for  further  information  on  the 
subjects  treated  in  the.se  pages  are:  "  The  Problem  of  Religious  Progress,"  by  Rev 
D.  Dorchester,  D.D.,  published  by  Phillips  &  Hunt,  805  Broadway,  New  York;  it 
is  full  of  statistics  on  all  the  different  denominations  both  in  this  country  and  abroad. 
"  Modern  Missions:  Their  Trials  and  Triumphs,"  by  Dr.  Young,  is  considered  one 
of  the  best  on  the  general  subject  of  Foreign  Missions.  "The  Mohammedan  Mis- 
sionary Problem,"  by  Rev.  H.  H.  Jessup,  D.  D.,  is  a  forcible  presentation  of  this 
subject. 


THE 

PROBLEM  OF  RELIGIOUS  PROGRESS. 

By  DANIEL  DORCHESTER,  D-D- 

S03  lE^^^o-ES.   i=:e^ic:e],  $2. 


This  is  pre-eminently  a  book  for  the  times. — Christian  Guardian. 

The  reader  is  impressed  with  the  great  care  taken  in  preparing 
the  computations,  the  evident  candor  with  which  they  have  been 
prepared,  and  the  magnitude  of  the  problem  to  which  they  have  been 
applied. —  The  Watchman. 

A  remarkable  book.     Nothing  issued  from  the  press  in   recent 

years  can  surpass  it  in  interest  for  the  Christian  Church Its 

chapter  on  missions  is  worth  many  times  the  price  of  the  book.— 
Methodist  Mission  Rooms. 

One  of  the  best  books  that  have  appeared  recently. —  Western  Chris- 
tiaJt  Advocate. 

Few  books  are  as  valuable  as  this  thesaurus  of  Christian  statistics. 
— Junius,  in  the  Christian  Advocate. 

We  hesitate  not  to  say  that,  in  our  judgment,  this  is  the  most  im- 
portant contribution  which  has  thus  far  been  made  to  a  subject  grave 
and  full  of  interest. — Congregatiotialist. 

How  hard  to  keep  the  "  calm,  judicial  mind,"  and  not  run  into  the 
extreme  of  pessimism  or  optimism,  in  such  a  work  as  yours  !  You 
seem  to  have  succeeded  admirably. — Rev.  Samuel  W.  Dzke,  Royal- 
ton,  Vt. 

If  any  one  doubts  the  permanency  of  the  Christian  religion,  or 
imagines  that  it  is  to  be  swept  away  by  a  few  blatant  infidels,  he  has 
only  to  turn  to  the  pages  of  this  valuable  volume  to  be  reassured. — 
New  York  Evening  Express. 

We  scarcely  remember  to  have  read  a  book  so  well  sustained 
throughout,  and  containing  so  much  clear  thinking  and  so  many  val- 
uable facts  in  similar  compass. — Rev.  J.  M.  Buckley,  D.D. 

Dr.  Dorchester  has  probably  gathered  the  most  correct  ecclesiasti- 
cal statistics  ever  gathered  in  this  country. — Rev.  B.  K.  Pierce,  D.D. 

Its  facts  are  its  strength. — New  York  Observer. 

It  is  impossible  to  close  a  study  like  this  without  looking  behind 
and  beyond  the  figures  to  the  moral  and  social  facts  covered  by 
them. — New  York  Evattgelist. 

The  study  of  the  book  should  not  leave  a  faint  heart  in  Christen- 
dom.—  Vermont  Christian  Messenger. 

A  thoughtful  and  hopeful  book. — Boston  Daily  Advertiser. 

The  book  is  a  blessing  to  the  universal  Church. — Rev.  Smith  Baker, 
Pastor  of  the  First  Cofigregational  Church,  Lowell,  Mass. 

A  book  of  more  than  ordinary  interest  to  thoughtful  people. — 
Christian  at  Work. 

Dr.  Dorchester's  tables  are  the  most  complete  and  important  that 
have  yet  been  made,  to  our  knowledge ;  and  he  has  not  twisted  the 
figures  to  suit  a  preconceived  idea. — Examiner  and  Chronicle. 

There  is  a  wonderful  energizing  life  in  these  demonstrations. — 
Methodist  Quarterly  Review. 

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